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Literary Dollars and Social Sense A People's History of the Mass Market Book
356 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
356 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
328 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Prior to the Civil War, publishing in America underwent a transformation from a genteel artisan trade supported by civic patronage and religious groups to a thriving, cut-throat national industry propelled by profit. Literary Dollars and Social Sense represents an important chapter in the historical experience of print culture, it illuminates the phenomenon of amateur writing and delineates the... Read more
Introduction: Social Authors and Disseminators in the Age of the Mass Market I. In and Out of Print II. Textual Appearances III. From the Outside Looking In VI. Inside and Outside the Literary Marketplace
Biography
Ronald J. Zboray is Associate Professor of Communication and of History at the University of Pittsburgh. Among his books are A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public (Oxford).
Mary Saracino Zboray is an independent scholar; she is coauthor, with Ron Zboray, of A Handbook for the Study of Book History in the United States (Library of Congress).
'Overall, this is a significant, highly readable, and exhaustively researched study of a particularly dynamic period in the history of American authorship.' – The Journal of American History
